Timo Brunke

Bas Böttcher , Timo Brunke , Nora-Eugenie Gomringer and Dalibor Markovic at the "Poetry Slam Festival Zurich 2010" (from left)

Timo Brunke (born March 11, 1972 in Stuttgart ) is a German word artist, poet and author .

Life

Timo Brunke has appeared as a literary cabaret artist since his school days and has been developing his own forms of play poetry, the spoken word , from the end of the 1980s, initially from there, then from the end of the 1990s as a protagonist and networker of the German-language poetry slam scene Slam poetry and experimental poetry .

Brunke studied Protestant theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen from 1994 to 1998 . From 1994 to 1998 he was an active member of the Tübinger Holzmarkt authors' group . From 1998 to 2000 he trained as an actor with Frieder Nögge and between 2002 and 2006 was a student at Christof Stählin's songwriting school SAGO, which later became the Academy for Poetry and Music in Mainz.

Since 1993 Timo Brunke can be seen with continuously new programs as a traveling poet, rhapsode and language game artist on stages in Germany and abroad. In 1999 he founded the Stuttgart Poetry Slam at the Rosenau club there. In 2008 he transferred the role of the Stuttgart slam master to Thomas Geyer.

Timo Brunke has been involved in cultural education since 2001. In his appearances and in his readings, language game events and courses, he promotes creative use of the spoken word. From 2006 to 2012 Timo Brunke headed the long-term teaching project “Word and Games” at the Stuttgart Literature House. Since 2013 he has been conveying his poetics there as a further training curriculum "Word and Game" for German teachers.

The German language , he taught abroad also on behalf of various Goethe Institutes . Performances and workshops led him a. a. to Almaty, Brno, Brussels, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, London, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, São Paulo, Skopje or Zagreb.

From 2006 to 2008 he accompanied Bas Böttcher with his text box project to Paris ( Center Pompidou ), Beijing, Berlin ( Neue Nationalgalerie ), Abu Dhabi, Bangkok and Madrid.

In the discussion about the Stuttgart 21 station project in 2010, Brunke wrote the stanzas for the song “Friends of beautiful head stations” in Schiller's and Beethoven's “Ode to Joy”, which developed into the anthem of resistance to the building project.

Timo Brunke is married to the journalist Angelika Brunke and lives with his family in Stuttgart.

poetics

Timo Brunke calls his artistic work “Metrogarde” with the neologism , and he describes himself as a “stage poet”. In contrast to the avant-garde concept of the 20th century, Brunke sees the task of 21st century artists to be active in a wide variety of contexts and milieus to create style and level. At a distance from mass entertainment on the one hand and from the hermeticism of an L'art pour l'art on the other hand, the poet, the contemporary artist, has to go “outside”,

“To create a center there, on site, in the rough terrain, the warming campfire of culture with the means of play, the loving irritation and committed self-management such as networking and definitely in the sense of an intellectual service that creates laws for itself to ignite. "

Awards

• 2010: Why is it called that? is chosen by the Austrian Ministry of Science as the best science book of 2010 in the category "Junior Knowledge".
• 2011: Promotion Prize of the Schubart Literature Prize
• In 2011, Brunke was introduced with his project Word and Games - Language Workshop in German Classes as part of the Robert Bosch Stiftung's “Those in Charge” anniversary campaign .

Works

Stage productions

• Encaved Poems - Lyric Peaches (1993)
• Cuffs in Shell - Slaps in the Face (1995)
• The Great Toast from the First and the Next Sip (1996)
• The Wisdom of the Jordan River (1998)
• Strudelgargel (1999)
• Verselust (2000)
• Per Verse (2001)
• Pension Brunke (2004)
• Mörike's Eros (2004)
• Mind to Mouth (2006)
• All of that. All of these things. (2007)
• Throat-Soul-D'u, Cantata on the Power of the Voice ; together with Jaap Blonk , commissioned work: Academy for Spoken Word (2008)
• Language plus X , commissioned work: Institute for the German Language (2009)

• From the transition of the west - slampo poetry to music with Scott Roller (2011)
• Through the realm of deep tones - stage poetry in cooperation with the double bass quartet "Bassics" (2012)
• The Carnival of the Animals - retold (2013)
• Matinee with gold rim for Jean Paul , together with Armin Elhardt (2013) (www.edition-wuz.de)
• Grim Reaper Sensorium together with Scott Roller (2013)
• Mrs. Reim and Mr. Räp - a word break for children from 6 years of age (2015)

literature

• Orpheus downtown . edition spoken script 17th publisher Der Gesundheit Menschenversand, Lucerne (2015), ISBN 978-3-03853-011-4
• Word and play in class. From language game to poetry slam to rhapsody. Klett-Kallmeyer, Berlin / Hamburg (2015), ISBN 978-3-7800-4831-8
• Cannstattinopel edition wuz 24, Freiberg am Neckar (2015), edited with the assistance of Armin Elhardt, www.edition-wuz.de
• Why is that called that? A collection of amazing word stories. Klett children's book publisher. (2009) ISBN 3-941411-07-1

Volumes of poetry

• Enlivened Poems - Lyric Peaches . Verlag Reiner Brouwer (1996). Edition Isele (2005)
• The Lauterlabe - a verse drama . Verlag Reiner Brouwer (1997)
• Lappalie Lapsus and Lapidar Läppisch in: Die Läuterlabe . Edition Isele (2005)

Contributions to various anthologies

• THE poem . No. x ed. By Anton G. Leitner
• High cheers - sad to death . dtv paperback
• Slam! Poetry . Killroy Media .
• The magazine that wanted to change its long name . Summer (2006)
• Slam poetry . ed. by Petra Anders, Reclam-Verlag (2008)

Other contributions

• Weekly verse columns for the Stuttgarter Zeitung (from autumn 2009 to summer 2011)
• Paläopoesie (2008) Texts for the audio guide Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

Language pieces

• Pastiorale - Homage to Oskar Pastior for seven speaking voices (2007)
• Communication expectation - Second UA (2008)

Sound carrier

• Poetry: Part two (4 audio CDs) Der Hörverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89584-987-1 .
• All of that. All of these things. Poetry. (Audio-CD) Verlag Der Gesunde Menschenversand, Bern / Lucerne 2006, ISBN 3-9522993-3-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Timo Brunke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brunkes web presence

Footnotes

1. ^ Sago - list of graduates
2. ↑ Nathalie Karanfilovic: Poetry Slam - Literature and Action ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview with Brunke at medienkultur-stuttgart.de
3. ↑ Stuttgart Poetry Slam website
4. ↑ Word and Games teaching project at the Literaturhaus Stuttgart
5. ↑ New Goethe-Institut inaugurated ( memento of the original from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved from : Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Kazakhstan) : July 30, 2015 
6. ↑ Web presence: die textbox ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Song text: Friends of beautiful head stations On: www.diskussion21.de Retrieved: July 30, 2015
8. ↑ Timo Brunke & Sasann Hesselbarth: Why is it called that?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: www.wissenschaftsbuch.at  
9. ^ Schubart Literature Prize and Schubart Literature Prize from the city of Aalen . On: www.aalen.de
10. ↑ 150 Years of Robert Bosch - Photo Book (.pdf) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.